

Sidestep: Climate windows for Polynesian voyages
The Polynesians did a lot of voyaging within a specific window and not much before or after. This is mainly due to natural climate...
YM
May 8, 2020


153: Bones have voices
What will be the most significant find at our new dig, or in the other two if we do ever get in? Artefacts? Something most unexpected or...
IJ
May 1, 2020


Sidestep: Is Ancient DNA Research revealing new truths or falling into old traps?
Original article - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html The above article was in relation to the...
MD
Apr 25, 2020


152: MoriOri, Melanesia and Mapuche similarities.
I know this has been in the news recently and people will roll their eyes again. Well, that's good exercise for the eyes. We are just...
IJ & MD
Apr 17, 2020


Sidestep: The Palla Adzes
Palla is a name given to a green silicified tuff found by Julius von Haast near Mt Somers in 1864. The term 'palla' comes from Austria...
YM
Apr 10, 2020


151: Giants of the world
Here is a small list of reasonably accepted stories of giants bones being found... Some go back 100 years, others are as recent as 30...
IJ
Apr 3, 2020


The Karioitahi Artefact
This is a real doozy of a find. This artifact was discovered by a Mr Archibald T Bennett on 3rd June 1907 in the sand at the bottom of a...
IJ
Mar 31, 2020


Sidestep: Archaeological isolationism
This is a copy of an article written by an archaeologist lamenting the isolationism of archaeology and the result of that isolationism....
YM
Mar 27, 2020


150: The Ngaroto Carving
Just what influenced the carvers of the Ngaroto pou design? Ngaroto means ‘the lake’ - (Nga – ‘the’, roto – ‘lake’). There is no legend...
MD & IJ
Mar 20, 2020


Sidestep: Psuedo professionalism
Almost all Pseudo-Archaeology sites lack a scientific method, many bag archaeologists and their work, have nationalist views and...
MD & IJ
Mar 13, 2020